Only 1 cable box

[qcliffy]

I'm sick of paying the cable guy to rent receivers for each TV in my home. Any way I can just pay for the 1 box and get the signal to my other TV's? Will their remotes work?

 

[rgd1101]

you can buy cable card, contact your cable company to see if they supported it.

 

[Wolfshadw]

If your home is or can be wire-networked, you can build a Home Theater PC (HTPC) with a multi-tuner card attached/added. This multi-tuner device would require a cablecard from your cable company, but it would support up six simultaneous channels (more if you have multiple multi-tuner cards). In addition to the HTPC, each TV location would require a media extender device which could be assigned one of the tuners from the multi-tuner card.

There is a high, upfront cost here, but, depending on how many set top boxes you currently need (and can get rid of), eventually there will be a cost savings.

-Wolf sends

 

[americanaudiophile]

You would need to run either HDMI or Cat5/5e/6 to each TV from the box with 10BaseT adapters if don't use HDMI. You would also need a distribution box with enough outputs for all of your TVs. You would also need a remote at each TV that would send to the cable box either via RF/Wifi or additional cable and IR receivers. All in all you will spend enough to pay for multiple cable boxes for quite a while.